Justice Ministry deputy director says courts in California must first make a final ruling on whether the director can be sentenced in absentia.Pulanski’s legal battle to avoid returning to the U.S. on statutory rape charges involving a then 13-year old… more »

Warren Sapp has made bail but couldn’t analyze the Super Bowl for the NFL Network after being arrested and charged with domestic battery in the alleged choking of his girlfriend in a Miami Beach hotel. Sapp, a defensive lineman who starred at the Univers… more »

Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned. Prescr… more »

In one of the more bizarre local incidents a naked man believed to have been under the influence of crack cocaine who was reported to have been masturbating in front of a school was captured. When approached by Santa Barbara Police he fled in a car. A pu… more »

Preliminary figures indicate that, as a whole, law enforcement agencies throughout the Nation reported a decrease of 4.4 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first six months of 2009 when compared with figures report… more »

A Pakistani court on Wednesday rejected bail applications for five Americans suspected of plotting terror attacks, a court official said. The prosecution argued the men should not be granted bail because Pakistani anti-terrorism laws forbid it for de… more »

Jane Laut, 52, accused murderer of 1984 Olympian shot putter and bronze medalist medalist husband Dave Laut, pleaded not guilty to first degree murder charges in Ventura County Superior Court  yesterday. Bond was not reduced from the $3 million set earli… more »

Larimer County, CO: Tim Masters, 37, has won his lawsuit against alleging false imprisonment, with a settlement agreement of $4.1 million, CNN.com reported Tuesday. Masters was imprisoned on a murder charge for life in 1999, for which he is now exone… more »